1 tb Linkstation is dying
It isn’t completely dead yet, but will be after I throw it away. It fell yesterday, no idea when, or how long it was on the ground. Got an error saying the number of bad sectors reached emergency level or something. Rebooted it and the error went away, it seemed fine till today. Should of tried backing the data up yesterday. Every time I tried backing the data up to a USB drive, it would go into emergency mode. Not sure if it was under warranty, probably not anymore, since I opened it to remove the drive. Have it connected to MSI Nettop 100 and another drive too, getting errors trying to copy some of the data. There isn’t anything that important on it, and I was using less then 200 GB. I got some of the music, I have most of the music on an external hard drive anyways. I probably won’t buy any buffalo products again, it was nice while it lasted. The only reason I can think of for it falling is the ethernet cable was kind of tight, so maybe the switch got moved and it fell. Glad I didn’t put any important data on it, now I just need to get my printer hooked up to the network again. Don’t really need a NAS, rather have another external hard drive to backup my other external hard drive.
If you buy a linkstation, put it somewhere where it won’t fall, and back the data on it up. It has a samsung drive in it, might check to see if its under warranty, and get a new drive, could make my MSI Nettop 100 a NAS, even know I don’t need one, probably won’t though to lazy. Could get a new drive and put it in an enclosure.
Not going to bother trying to get a new drive, just read the warning on their warranty page. Checked to see if the drive was still under warranty, and said to contact the manufacture… Maybe I shouldn’t of opened it.
There’s one pic of the inside, already removed the drive. Hmm could put it back together, and not store anything on the drive, just use it to share the printer.
Put it back together, I formatted the partition with shares on it in ubuntu. It says it is checking the disk, should work as a print server. Oh yeah I broke the light on the front. It failed to mount it, probably cause I didn’t format it as XFS. Going to format it with web interface.
Update
It was being really loud last night so tried turning it off, but didn’t work so had to unplug it. Probably won’t bother plugging it in again. Plugged my printer into airport express.
Thinking I should get a LaCie Rugged All-Terrain hard drive, that way if it falls it probably won’t die. Synology Disk Station DS109j Economical 1-Bay SATA NAS Server for Personal and Home Use-White looks like a nice NAS solution. Hmm read review, guess you can’t attach external drives by USB and share those, that kind of sucks.
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